Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, DOH-7 chief pathologist, says Cebu has sufficient infrastructure, systems in place to respond to possible surge of infection during the House hearing on June 17. |CDN Digital screen grab from House hearing
The House of Representatives’ Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs on Thursday, June 17, conducted a hearing to discuss the plight of Overseas Filipino Workers amid the pandemic. Also present in the hearing was Dr. Alethea De Guzman, director of DOH’s Epidemiology Bureau, who represented Health Secretary Francisco Duque III.
“I think, on the part of our experts, we would like our experts to put across the argument is not really about when we are testing… Our experts are stating the need for strict quarantine,” she added. She added that there should be a ‘paradigm shift on how the public should address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic’.